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This one offers a comprehensive guide to all aspects of social media, not just facebook either. It covers a lot of areas I wouldn't have considered otherwise.

Again really obvious stuff.

For startups and small businesses, gaining traction on social media may appear fraught with difficulties. We held a live Q&A on the topic, with advice from a panel of experts. From gaining followers to picking the best channel for you, here's what they suggested: Gaining followers "When your followers engage with you, make sure you respond.

This one focuses on a mental health issue (Social Anxiety Disorder), but the advice is preety good for anyone really.

To be honest, this one in pretty obvious, but worth a read at the very least.

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The phenomenon that is Facebook has grown faster than our ability to fathom it, which means that along with the fun stuff, there's plenty you should avoid. From making yourself a target of crime, to losing a lover or getting yourself sacked, Rosalind Scutt flags the things you should never do on Facebook.

Love them or hate them, social networking sites are here to stay. Facebook and MySpace are among the most popular destinations on the web. And even though they can be extremely annoying, there is one inescapable fact: the most irritating thing about Facebook is the 100m-strong army of people who use it.

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Facebook 's mission is to " give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." This all sounds very worthy and far out, but on the flipside the social network can also be a tool for causing a nuisance and generally upsetting the cosmic order of things.

Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks Unless you've been living under a rock in 2009, you know that social networking Web sites are the latest and greatest way to interact with other users on the Internet.

By Emma Reynolds Next time you start to upload pictures of nights out on to Facebook, or moan about your day on Twitter, bear in mind that you could be risking your career. One in five bosses have rejected an applicant because of their profiles on social networking sites, according to a UK company's report on the technology industry.